Man, 19, faces charges

Man, 19, faces charges

BOARDMAN

A township man is charged with two counts of assault and one count of underage consumption of an alcoholic beverage after he reportedly shot a neighbor with an Airsoft rifle.

The purported victims reported to police about 1:30 a.m. Sunday that James McKenna, 19, of Southern Boulevard, punched one in the face during a dispute and then shot another with an Airsoft gun after fleeing to his apartment. Police, who observed injuries to the victims, also noticed that McKenna appeared to be intoxicated.

Man charged with injuring employee

WARREN

John W. Kucek, 46, of Youngstown Road Southeast, is in the Trumbull County jail, charged with injuring a Sam’s Club employee last week by driving his pickup truck into him after the employee said Kucek tried to steal from the business.

Surveillance video of the incident shows the employee, 27, of Masury, being carried by the truck in circles in the rear store parking lot before the employee fell off the truck and hit the ground.

Kucek will be arraigned Tuesday in Warren Municipal Court on a charge of aggravated robbery. If convicted, he could get about 10 years in prison.

The incident occurred at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, police said. The employee said he stood in front of the truck and was calling for other employees to help when Kucek hit him.

Man, 24, sentenced

WARREN

Denzil Chaney, 24, of Fifth Street Southwest, was sentenced to 22 years in prison Monday for two incidents last summer.

Judge Peter Kontos of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court sentenced Chaney after he pleaded guilty earlier to two counts of aggravated robbery and single counts of robbery, felonious assault and aggravated burglary.

On July 16, 2014, Chaney entered Fast Fuel, 1514 Parkman Road NW, fired a gun three times at a store employee, then took the cash register and fled, police said.

On July 17, 2014, he tackled a George Place Southwest woman after he emerged from her home uninvited, then pointed a gun at her head. He left after the woman’s boyfriend intervened.

Death investigated

AUSTINTOWN

The Mahoning County Coroner’s office is investigating the death of a man who reportedly died while hitching a ride with a truck driver.

Township police responded to a travel center lot at 5400 Seventy-Six Drive on Thursday, where a truck driver reported that a man, identified as Evan Broome, 33, of Illinois, who he picked up in Illinois died while believed to be asleep.

The driver said Broome, who he knew from other encounters at a truck stop, had asked him for a ride to North Carolina, and he agreed. He last saw Broome alive the previous morning, when he heard him snoring, he reported.

Police reportedly found evidence of previous narcotics use in Broome’s suitcase.

Burglary charge

NILES

Paul F. Tankovich, 49, of Watson-Marshall Road, McDonald, was arraigned Monday in Niles Municipal Court on a charge of felony burglary, accused of breaking into his next-door neighbor’s house Saturday afternoon and taking $200 cash, $50 in coins, tax documents and bras and panties.

A woman who lives on Watson-Marshall said a neighbor told her she’d seen Tankovich come out of her house holding items in his arms. The victim checked her home and found tax information missing from a file cabinet. Also missing was $200 in cash and $50 in change, underwear and a composting thermometer. No plea was required.

Accused of assault

WARREN

Joseph A. Moore, 30, of South Raccoon Road in Austintown, is being held without eligibility to make bond after purportedly assaulting an ambulance worker shortly after ambulance workers revived him with Narcan.

The incident occurred at a female friend’s house on Oak Knoll Avenue Southeast at 5:21 p.m. Sunday.

Warren police said an ambulance worker was escorting Moore to an ambulance after giving him the life-saving drug-overdose drug Narcan when Moore hit the ambulance worker in the chest with his elbow, knocking the worker back.

Moore grabbed the yellow medical bag the ambulance worker was carrying and tried to run away, but the ambulance worker caught him and tackled him.

Paramedics use Narcan

BOARDMAN

Paramedics revived a man with Narcan, an antidote that reverses the effects of a heroin overdose, after township police made a traffic stop and discovered an unresponsive passenger in the vehicle.

Township police also cited the driver, Duane Ashford, 53, of Youngstown, for operating a vehicle while impaired.

Police reportedly stopped him early Saturday after observing him driving erratically on West Midlothian Boulevard. At that time they noticed a man who was “passed out in the front passenger seat but still breathing, with his eyes open,” according to a police report.

Woman charged

BOARDMAN

A township woman is charged with domestic violence and felonious assault after reportedly trying to stab her husband at their Trenholm Road home.

Township police arrested Fadia Ishak, 46, Friday after they were called to the residence for a dispute.

Ishak and her husband both told police, according to a report, that she tried to attack him with a kitchen knife during an argument.